The fear of blood tends to create fear for the flesh.
Let’s talk about Silent Hill, those of you who are familiar or fans. Scariest video game series ever, in my opinion. The remake of the first Resident Evil game, and the two most recent entries in that series, are pretty terrifying, but most of it is jump scares, with the atmosphere only being scary during the first sequences as the mystery builds up. With Silent Hill, the foreboding, the unnerving feeling that anything might happen at any moment, the expectation that you’ll turn a corner and see something that isn’t even dangerous to you, but is so shocking, so disturbing, so warped to the rational mind that it will make you shiver in your seat just from thinking about what it means, things like that are all over every moment of this series. Even the later entries, which do drop in quality, still have that feeling, although less effective. And those first four games, especially 2 and 3, because of the graphical detail that was missing from the first game… nothing like it had come since, although many have tried to emulate it.
The main games are:
Silent Hill
Silent Hill 2
Silent Hill 3
Silent Hill 4: The Room
Silent Hill: Origins
Silent Hill: Homecoming
Silent Hill: Downpour
And one remake:
Silent Hill: Shattered Memories
One major game that was being developed and then cancelled:
Silent Hills
And now three new games announced:
Silent Hill 2 Remake
Silent Hill: Townfall
Silent Hill F
As you can see, most games have a subtitle, except the first three, although the Xbox version of the Greatest Hits edition of the game gives it one:Restless Dreams, which I think is a good one. In fact, all of the original three can have a subtitle that makes sense based on a very significant phrase said at some point in each game, and since I like consistency with titles across a series, it always seems weird when the first entry just had the main name and all those that follow have numbers and/or subtitles. And since the series drops the number convention after the fourth game, let’s do that too, and then we have the first four, the Team Silent entries, named thusly:
Silent Hill: Mother of God
Silent Hill: Restless Dreams
Silent Hill: Rebirth of Paradise
Silent Hill: The Room
That’s better.
Silent Hill 2 remake is a bad idea, as it is another example of a company trying to further capitalize on their greatest success by trying to hammer it back into the audience that loved it over and over again, telling them see, you liked this right, well here it is, here’s more, you like it right, give us your money!
Don’t know if Townfall is going to be a continuation (
for it), or a reboot or spin-off ( it won’t be), and have no idea what F is supposed to be, other than it leans more into the Japanese origins of the series than other entries.
“If you make a sound, they’ll hear you. If you turn on a light, they’ll see you. If you think it’s scary being lost, just wait until you’re found.”